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Cities: The First 6,000 Years, by Monica L. Smith, reviewed by Nicola Terrenato



Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates. Vol. 6, A Zooarchaeological Analysis, by Karyn M. Wesselingh, reviewed by Emmanuelle Vila

The Hellenistic Harbour of Amathus: Underwater Excavations, 1984–1986, Vol. 1 by Jean-Yves Empereur and Tony Koželj; Vol. 2 edited by Jean-Yves Empereur, reviewed by Deborah Carlson

Veii, edited by Jacopo Tabolli, reviewed by J. Marilyn Evans

Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy, by Seth Bernard, reviewed by John North Hopkins


Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture: Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations, edited by Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland, reviewed by Maryl B. Gensheimer

The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society, by Sarah Levin-Richardson, reviewed by John R. Clarke



Gardens of the Roman Empire, edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha Malek, reviewed by Nicole G. Brown

What’s New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Athens, 8–10 October 2015, edited by Valentina Di Napoli, Francesco Camia, Vasilis Evangelidis, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Dylan Rogers, and Stavros Vlizos, reviewed by Michalis Karambinis

Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily, by Laura Pfuntner, reviewed by Jerrad Lancaster




God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts, by Brent Nongbri, reviewed by Steven M. Stannish

Bąkowska-Czerner, Grażyna, and Rafał Czerner, eds. Greco-Roman Cities at the Crossroads of Cultures: The 20th Anniversary of Polish-Egyptian Conservation Mission Marina el-Alamein. Pp. iv + 312. Archaeopress, Oxford 2019. £60. ISBN 978-1-78969-148-1 (paper).

Barrett, Caitlín Eilís. Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens. Pp. xxiv + 445. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019. $99. ISBN 978-0-19064-135-1 (cloth).

Barrett, John C., and Michael J. Boyd. From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation. Pp. xiv + 201. Bloomsbury Academic, London 2019. $95. ISBN 978-1-4742-9189-7 (cloth).

Berlin, Andrea M., and Paul J. Kosmin, eds. Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Pp. xvi + 289. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2019. $129.95. ISBN 978-0-299-32130-7 (cloth).

Breeze, David J. The Frontiers of Imperial Rome, 2nd ed. Pp. xxiv + 244. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, U.K. 2019. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-52676-080-7 (paper).

Bunbury, Judith. The Nile and Ancient Egypt: Changing Land- and Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era. Pp. xvi + 182. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-10701-215-8 (cloth).

Collins, Andrew, and Gregory L. Little. Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America. Pp. xvi + 398. Bear & Company, Rochester, Vt. 2019. $24. ISBN 978-1-59143-263-0 (paper).

Diakou, Stella. The Upper Geometric Cemetery at Lapithos: University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations 1931–1932 (SIMA 146). Pp. xxvi + 395. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €80. ISBN 978-91-981535-3-8 (cloth).

Dzbyński, Aleksander. Cinematosophical Introduction to the Theory of Archaeology: Understanding Archaeology Through Cinema, Philosophy, Literature and Some Incongruous Extremes. Pp. xiv + 299. Vernon Press, Wilmington, Del. 2019. $52. ISBN 978-1-62273-727-7 (cloth).

Elkins, Nathan T. A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome’s Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It. Pp. 168. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2019. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-3255-7 (paper).

Endreffy, Kata, Arpád Miklós Nagy, and Jeffrey Spier, eds. Magical Gems in Their Contexts: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16–18 February 2012 (StArch 229). Pp. xx + 340. L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 2019. €230. ISBN 978-88-913-1297-6 (paper).

Feuchtwang, Stephan, and Michael Rowlands. Civilisation Recast: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Pp. vi + 218. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-10848-434-3 (cloth).

Fischer, Peter M., and Teresa Bürge. Two Late Cypriot City Quarters at Hala Sultan Tekke: The Söderberg Expedition 2010–2017 (SIMA 147). Pp. 648. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €108. ISBN 978-91-981535-4-5 (cloth).

González Cesteros, Horacio, and Piero Berni Millet. Roman Amphorae in Neuss: Augustan to Julio-Claudian Contexts (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 12). Pp. viii + 136. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £35. ISBN 978-1-78969-052-1 (paper).

Gorzelany, Dorota. Macedonia – Alexandria: Monumental Funerary Complexes of the Late Classical and Hellenistic Age. Pp. iv + 236. Archaeopress, Oxford 2019. £32. ISBN 978-1-78969-136-8 (paper).

Greenslade, Simon, ed. Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Vol. 1, The Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb (Butrint Archaeological Monographs 6). Pp. 448. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. $99. ISBN 978-1-78925-213-2 (cloth).

Greenslade, Simon, ed. Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Vol. 2, The Finds (Butrint Archaeological Monographs 6). Pp. xx + 284. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2019. $90. ISBN 978-1-78925-217-0 (cloth).

Hulin, Linda, Lindy Crewe, and Jennifer M. Webb, eds. Structures of Inequality on Bronze Age Cyprus: Studies in Honour of Alison K. South (SIMA-PB 187). Pp. xviii + 276. Astrom Editions, Nicosia, Cyprus 2018. €48. ISBN 978-9925-7455-0-0 (cloth).

Jacobs, Ine, and Hugh Elton, eds. Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century: Current Research and Future Directions. Pp. viii + 245. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. $55. ISBN 978-1-78925-007-7 (paper).

Kirch, Patrick Vinton, and Clive Ruggles. Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani: The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui. Pp. xx + 360. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2019. $75. ISBN 978-0-82487-827-6 (cloth).

Leatherbury, Sean V. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing. Pp. xviii + 366. Routledge, London 2019. $140. ISBN 978-1-4724-5918-3 (cloth).

Levi, Sara T., Valentina Cannavò, and Daniele Brunelli. Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2. Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic–Bronze Age. Pp. viii + 168. Archaeopress, Oxford 2019. £35. ISBN 978-1-78969-117-7 (paper).

Mazzilli, Francesca. Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the Broader Network of the Near East (100 BC–AD 300). (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 51). Pp. viii + 208. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £32. ISBN 978-1-78491-954-2 (paper).

Morais, Rui, Delfim Leão, and Diana Rodríguez Pérez, eds., with Daniela Ferreira. Greek Art in Motion: Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday. Pp. iv + 510. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £75. ISBN 978-1-78969-023-1 (paper).

Nolan, Roger. Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britain: Solving a 2,000-Year-Old Mystery. Pp. xxiv + 145. Frontline Books, Barnsley, U.K. 2018. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-52674-791-4 (cloth).

Olsen, Birgit Anette, Thomas Olander, and Kristian Kristiansen, eds. Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New Evidence from Archaeology and Historical Linguistics. Pp. viii + 184. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. £25. ISBN 978-1-78925-270-5 (paper).

Ortman, Scott G., ed. Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 80). Pp. viii + 203. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2019. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-8165-3931-4 (paper).

Parcak, Sarah. Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past. Pp. 277. Henry Holt, New York 2019. $30. ISBN 978-1-2501-9828-0 (cloth).

Peltenburg, Edgar, Diane Bolger, and Lindy Crewe, eds. Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus: Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou. Pp. xx + 588. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. £48. ISBN 978-1-78925-019-0 (cloth).

Perreault, Charles. The Quality of the Archaeological Record. Pp. x + 254. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2019. $35. ISBN 978-0-226-63096-0 (paper).

Puddu, Mauro. Funerary Archaeology and Changing Identities: Community Practices in Roman-Period Sardinia (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 55). Pp. vi + 180. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £40. ISBN 978-1-78969-000-2 (paper).

Redmond, Brian G., Bret J. Ruby, and Jarrod Burks, eds. Encountering Hopewell in the Twenty-first Century, Ohio and Beyond. Vol. 1, Monuments and Ceremony. Pp. x + 270. The University of Akron Press, Akron 2019. $89.95. ISBN 978-1-629221-02-1 (cloth).

Regnier, Amanda L., Scott W. Hammerstedt, and Sheila Bobalik Savage, eds. The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma: Archaeology from the WPA Era Until Today. Pp. 380. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2019. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-2025-6 (cloth).

Sampson, Adamantios. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean and the Near East. Pp. xii + 194. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2019. £66.99. ISBN 978-1-5275-3635-7 (cloth).

Stein, Joshua G. Trajan’s Hollow. Pp. 296. Applied Research and Design Publishing, San Francisco 2019. $30. ISBN 978-1-940743-93-6 (paper).

Szabó, Csaba. Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: Materiality and Religious Experience (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 49). Pp. viii + 242. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £40. ISBN 978-1-78969-081-1 (paper).

Tabolli, Jacopo, ed. From Invisible to Visible: New Methods and Data for the Archaeology of Infant and Child Burials in Pre-Roman Italy and Beyond (SIMA 149). Pp. x + 273. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €68. ISBN 978-9925-7455-2-4 (cloth).

Tang, Birgit. Decorating Floors: The Tesserae-in-Mortar Technique in the Ancient World (AnalRom 51). Pp. 475. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 2018. €32. ISBN 978-88-7140-932-0 (paper).

Von Mehren, Margit. The Orientalizing and Lucanian Tombs from Loc. De Santis I at Pontecagnano (AnalRom 52). Pp. 275. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 2019. €32. ISBN 978-88-7140-936-8 (paper).

Walter, Hans, Angelika Clemente, and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Ursprung und Frühzeit des Heraion von Samos. Vol. 1, Topographie, Architektur und Geschichte (Samos 21.1). Pp. 350. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019. €78. ISBN 978-3-95490-399-3 (cloth).

Webb, Jennifer M. Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba, Cyprus: Early and Middle Bronze Age Tombs Excavated by Menelaos Markides (SIMA 148). Pp. xx + 294. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €80. ISBN 978-9925-7455-1-7 (cloth).

Williams, Kimberly D., and Lesley A. Gregoricka, eds. Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia. Pp. xii + 256. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 2019. $100. ISBN 978-1-68340-079-0 (cloth).


Yegül, Fikret, and Diane Favro. Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 897. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $300. ISBN 978-0-52147-071-1 (cloth).

ΠΗΓΗ: AJA, 3.2.2020. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 3.2.2020.
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